February 8, 2012 7:27 AM

Today's dispatch from the attic

From the “If I Don’t Toot My Own Horn, Who Will?” Department: The Oregonian, Portland’s finest fish-wrap, picked up my column on last week’s Egyptian soccer riot from the Oregon Sports News. They like me! They really like me!! (And other adventures in self-delusion.)

Hey, it’s a step in the right direction, no?

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It would hardly be a stretch to call anti-Islam crusader and general all-around harpie Pamela Geller a hate group leader; the Southern Poverty Law Center certainly has. Geller’s latest foaming-at-the-mouth crusade is against “honor killing”…except the case she’s chosen as her soapbox has nothing to do with honor killing.

Twenty-year-old Jessica Mokdad was killed by her abusive stepfather. Both Jessica’s family and the prosecutor handling the case agree that her murder was NOT an honor killing…not that Geller’s ever let the truth get in the way of a good story. Geller’s even sponsoring the “Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference” in Dearborn, MI, on the anniversary of Jessica’s death…this despite the Mokdad family’s strongly-stated wishes that she not do so. I guess when you’re the head of a group called Stop The Islamicization Of America, truth, compassion, and consideration for the feelings of others are distractions. They’d probably just get in the way of pushing the propaganda necessary to advance your agenda, no?

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In comparison, this might seem silly and pretty (and it may well be) can we please lose the “Disney World” moment after the end of the Super Bowl?

Narrator: Joe Schlabotnik, you and the East Bumfuck Creative Anachronisms just won the Super Bowl!! What are you going to do next??

Schlabotnik: I’m going to Disney World!!

Really? That’s the best you can do after all this time?

Many years ago, when this seemingly unscripted moment was fresh and original, it was cute. Now it’s tired and depressingly predictable. The sheer, unapologetic commercialism of the “I’M GOING TO DISNEY WORLD!!!” moment just seems pointless. Find something new, willya??

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During an interview with CNN’s Piers Morgan, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said that only “honest rape” merits consideration for abortion. OK, so it’s Ron Paul and the only people who take him seriously are impervious to reason. Still, I have to wonder if the man has a compassionate bone in his body. And does he not realize how churlish and mean-spirited “honest rape” sounds…or does he simply not care? I suppose when you view women as sperm receptacles and baby delivery systems, it’s easy to lose sight the their humanity and rights as free Americans.

Dude, just go back to Clute, TX, and live out your days volunteering for the annual Mosquito Festival, willya? You have no longer have anything of value to offer America…and I’m not sure you ever did.

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There seems little doubt that we’ve become Incarceration Nation. More than 50% of African-American men without a high school diploma will be jailed at some point during their life. There are more African-American men under the control of our criminal justice system today than were enslaved during the height of slavery. There are more than six million Americans under some form of correctional supervision today- more than were ever imprisoned in Stalin’s Gulag Archipelago. Private corrections is one of this country’s fastest growing market sectors.

So you still think we’re the greatest, freest country in the world? Perhaps you need to do your homework.

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And then there’s this example of rampant, incurable Obama Derangement Syndrome: ALABAMA REPUBLICANS VOW TO IMPEACH OBAMA. When last I checked, and I unfortunately know more about this subject than most, a President can only be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Of course, the definition of what constitutes a “high crime” and/or a “misdemeanor” is quite vague…but you CANNOT impeach a President simply because you disagree with him.

There actually is a way to remove a President whom you virulently disagree with from office. It’s called an ELECTION. That’s how a democracy works.

Interesting, isn’t it? George W. Bush lied and propagandized his way into a war in Iraq that resulted in the death of well over 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians, sent almost 5,000 Americans home in flag-covered boxes, and left tens of thousands more injured, maimed, and psychologically damaged. Even with this overwhelming evidence of war crimes, Captain Codpiece walks the Earth a free man. Yet Right-wing reprobates are demanding that Barack Obama be impeached. WTF???

Remember, when a Republicans does it, it’s prescient, selfless, inspired leadership. When a Democrat does it, it’s the worst sort of anti-American, treasonous, anti-Christian Socialism imaginable.

I’m tired of of people whining about how the government is “out of control”…and yet offering no credible argument to back up this specious assertion. I realize that there are large numbers of angry Conservative White Males ready, willing, and able to foam at the mouth if given half a chance, but that does not a convincing argument make.

Again, if you don’t like what’s happening, work to elect candidates who reflect your values. If all you have to offer is whining, moaning, and smug arrogance…well, you’re wasting oxygen and my time. Get over yourselves….

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